Key figures in racial profiling lawsuit in Ariz
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
PHOENIX — Key figures in a lawsuit that alleges that an Arizona sheriff's office has racially profiled Latinos in its immigration patrols. A judge ruled Friday that Arpaio's office systematically racially profiles Latinos:
Ohio kidnap case hero not endorsing free burgers
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
CLEVELAND — The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house said Friday that he's not endorsing a group of restaurants that are offering him free burgers for life and wants his name kept out of it.
Elite NYC school apologizes for past abuse
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
NEW YORK — The Horace Mann School, one of New York City's most prestigious private schools, has apologized for more than three decades of sexual abuse perpetrated by some of its teachers and administrators, according to a letter posted on its website Friday.
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81.
Officials scale back search for abducted Iowa teen
|Friday, May. 24, 2013
DAYTON, Iowa — Authorities are scaling back their search for a missing Iowa teenager abducted from a rural school bus stop this week.
Parolee indicted in theft of Gold Rush jewelry box
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
OAKLAND, Calif. — A parolee was indicted by a federal grand jury in the theft of a valuable Gold Rush-era jewelry box from the Oakland Museum of California, authorities said Friday.
Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
PHOENIX — A federal judge has ruled that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.
I-5 bridge survivor: 'I can't believe we're alive'
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Bryce Kenning saw the void before him in an explosion of dust, and there was nothing he could do.
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains.
LA sanitation ends plans for dump near Joshua Tree
| |Friday, May. 24, 2013
LOS ANGELES — A regional garbage collection agency has tossed out plans to build a mega-landfill for Los Angeles' trash less than two miles from Joshua Tree National Park in the remote Southern California desert.
